Ethnic Studies Unit 1 Review

Shared practices, technologies, attitudes and behaviors transmitted by a society

• acculturation

• cultural traits

• culture

• appropriation

Found in a large, heterogenous society that shares certain habits despite differences in personal characteristics

• indigenous culture

• culture

• pop culture

• acculturation

This includes food preferences, architecture and land use

• cultural traits

• assimilation

• culture

• ethnocentrism

Judging other cultures in terms of one's own standards; the beleif that one's own culture/ethnic group is better than others

• assimilation

• acculturation

• cultural relativsm

• ethnocentrism

Taking one aspect of a culture that is not your own and using it for your own personal interest

• acculturation

• assimilation

• appropriation

• ethnocentrism

Adopting only certain customs that will be to your advantage

• acculturation

• assimilation

• cultural relatvism

• appropriation

When the less dominant culture loses their culture to a more dominant culture

• appropriation

• assimilation

• acculturation

• ethnocentrism

An unbiased way of viewing another culture with a goal of understanding cultural practices that are not part of one's own culture.

• ethnocentrism

• cultural relativism

• appropriation

• assimilation

Identifying people based on physical characteristics such as skin color, eye and hair color or skin tone

• ethnicity

• culture

• assimilation

• race

Categorizing people based on shared practices such as language, religion, ancestry, and history.

• race

• ethnicity

• culture

• assimilation